USS Arenac, one of 117 Haskell class attack transports, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Wilmington, California, and commissioned in January 1945. After training on the West Coast and operations from Hawaii, she arrived at Ulithi in May. There she loaded troops and supplies for the ongoing Okinawa campaign, in which she participated in landing operations at the end of the month. After one resupply voyage from Guam to Okinawa, she returned to San Francisco for a two week shipyard repair period.
Arenac was on her way from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor in August 1945 when she received word of the Japanese surrender. She subsequently transported troops from Pearl Harbor to Manila and then from the Philippines to Japan, where she arrived at the end of October. She was then assigned to "Magic Carpet" duty and carried military personnel from Japan and the Philippines to the U. S. West Coast. Completing this mission in March 1946, she proceeded to the East Coast, and was placed out of commission in reserve there in July.
Initially retained in reserve by the Navy after the war as a mobilization asset, Arenac was stricken from the Navy List in October 1958 and transferred to the Maritime Administration in January 1959 for continued retention in its reserve fleet. The Maritime Administration sold her for scrapping in August 1974.
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Page made 22 July 2003